We will subside, and money is going

Police conducted more than 20 searches in the Committee for the Development of Entrepreneurship and the Consumer Market of St. Petersburg, in the offices of several commercial organizations, as well as in apartments of suspects in the embezzlement of budget funds. This was reported by the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The activities of an organized criminal group are suppressed, the report said. Its participants, according to the investigation, stole money under the guise of receiving subsidies for the development of entrepreneurship for a total amount of more than 35 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale).

It was established that the General Directors of the Three St. Petersburg firms, submitting fictitious documents, in 2012 and 2013 received large state offices for the development of entrepreneurship. Some of them were issued for participation in exhibitions of goods in the field of construction and housing and communal services intended for exports, which were carried out in other countries. In addition, the participants in the criminal group received subsidies as financial reimbursement of the costs of paying for allegedly purchased by them to lease industrial equipment, the police said.

"In fact, the organizers of subsidies did not buy equipment, did not participate in exhibitions, but executed forgery documents with organizations controlled by them. In the future, the received budget funds were cashed and legalized," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

The police established more than 10 participants and organizers of the criminal group. However, the detention in the message is not mentioned.

This is not the first corruption scandal in St. Petersburg. The most loud of them was the so -called "pipe business." At the end of November 2012, it became known that a number of officials of the St. Petersburg housing and communal services were suspected of fraud. Investigators claim that the company "Petrock" laid in the city about 600 km of defective pipes purchased from Rustrubbrom, which forged quality certificates. According to the investigation, 3 billion rubles were stolen from the city budget.

The managers of the Petro -Committee and a number of city officials were arrested. However, the investigation that lasted more than two years has not brought results. In May 2014, the Prosecutor General returned the case to an additional investigation, doubting the results of the financial examination.